Presentation Schedule for Spring 2026
ECE 499 Senior Thesis Presentations – Spring 2026
All presentations begin at 5:00 PM in 1002 ECEB. Each presentation is 10 minutes long.
Day 1 – Wednesday, April 1: Power Electronics, Circuits & Devices
| # | Student | Advisor | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Li, Yuxiao (Sean) | Arijit Banerjee | Modular PV Power System with CAN Bus / MPPT |
| 2 | Patel, Ishani | Chandrasekhar Radhakrishnan | Power Factor Demonstration Circuit |
| 3 | Dilbaghi, Dhruv | Pavan K. Hanumolu | On-Chip Temperature-Compensated RC Oscillator |
| 4 | Lu, Qiuyang | Pavan K. Hanumolu | ML-Driven Design of High-Speed Op-Amps |
| 5 | Dai, Kevin | Rongming Chu | High-Temp GaN HEMTs for Austere Environments |
| 6 | Lin, Henry | Elyse Rosenbaum | ESD Protection Circuits for Advanced CMOS |
| 7 | Tsai, Keehan | Wenjuan Zhu | Development of 3D Ferroelectric Memory |
| 8 | Xiao, Hongwen | Wenjuan Zhu | Development of 3D Ferroelectric Memory |
Day 2 – Wednesday, April 8: Photonics, Lasers & Nanofabrication
| # | Student | Advisor | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Li, Jason | Can Bayram | LED Efficiency Droop Contributors |
| 2 | Sinha, Shreyanka | Elizabeth Goldschmidt | Wafer-Bonded Thin-Films-on-Insulator for Integrated Photonics |
| 3 | Tuncer, Tuna | Minjoo Lawrence Lee | Substrate Thinning & Automation of L-I-V Testing for Lasers |
| 4 | Rayani, Rithwik | Hyunseok Kim | Alignment of Fluidic Self-Assembled Butt-Coupled Lasers |
| 5 | Raclaw, Nicholas Andrew | Milton Feng | High-Speed InP Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor |
| 6 | Yuan, Shixuan (Steven) | Milton Feng | Multi-Channel Connectors for AI 7G Data Link |
| 7 | Chen, Phillip Xiang | Joseph Lyding | NV Centers in Diamond via STM Lithography |
| 8 | Hsu, Wei-Chun | Joseph Lyding | GNRFET Fabrication |
| 9 | Mehta, Madhav | Joseph Lyding | Silicon Quantum Computer |
| 10 | Kale, Pinakin Chetan | Dane Sievers | Differential Photoconductivity of Protonated Polyaniline Films Under Vacuum Ultraviolet (172nm) Exposure |
Day 3 – Wednesday, April 15: Computer Architecture & Systems
| # | Student | Advisor | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bruksch, Chase Martin | Jian Huang | NPU Chip Tapeout |
| 2 | Asghar, Ali | Deming Chen | Hardware-Software Co-Design |
| 3 | Cruz, Austin Antony | Nam Sung Kim | Workload-Aware Caching for I/O Traffic |
| 4 | Fan, Frank | Nam Sung Kim | Vector Database Acceleration |
| 5 | Lai, Albus | Nam Sung Kim | CPU-GPU Distributed Inference for LLM Serving |
| 6 | Zhang, Shanbo | Sarita V. Adve | Virtualizing Accelerators as Persistent Threads |
| 7 | Gandhi, Krish Jay | Nancy Amato | GPU Support for STAPL Project |
| 8 | Hou, Jintong (Doris) | Deming Chen | Real-Time Chunking for HeteroVLA |
| 9 | Min, Andy | Volodymyr Kindratenki | Elastic Multi-Provider Cloud Bursting for HPC Systems |
| 10 | Yang, Xianhui | Zuofu Cheng | Modular RISC-V Microarchitecture on FPGA |
| 11 | Hou, Fred | Varun Chandrasekaran | Investigating Monoculture Bias in LLM-Generated Peer Reviews |
| 12 | Lukhanin, Edward | Lynford Goddard | Volumetric Optical Interconnect Layout Application |
Day 4 – Wednesday, April 22: AI, Vision & Machine Learning
| # | Student | Advisor | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bagdonaviciute, Ieva | David Forsyth | Physical Reasoning in Vision-Language Models |
| 2 | Baratian, Alex | Svetlana Lazebnik | Structured Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models |
| 3 | Yu, Sydney | Shenlong Wang | Generate Image on Different Camera Effect |
| 4 | Sabharwal, Nippun | Narendra Ahuja | Physics-Grounded Dynamic Scene Reconstruction |
| 5 | Chu, Juei-Che | Lav Varshney | Adaptive Learning Rates and Optimization |
| 6 | Zhang, Jack | Varun Chandrasekaran | Monoculture in LLM |
| 7 | Kahley, Ryan David | Nickvash Kani | AI Governance Landscape |
| 8 | Yin, Jiashi | Ismini Lourentzou | Tactile-Augmented World Model for Robotic Manipulation |
| 9 | Liang, Kyrian | Roy Dong | TBD |
| 10 | Zhou, Huting | Abhishek Umrawal | LLM Relearning using Coresets’ Gradient |
Day 5 – Wednesday, April 29: Robotics, Security & Applied Systems
| # | Student | Advisor | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jain, Varnika | Katherine Driggs-Campbell | Vision-Based Robotics Research |
| 2 | Huang, Taowei | Kris Hauser | Senior Research Project (Robotics) |
| 3 | Dubey, Krishna | Sayan Mitra | Reliable Vision-Based Control for Autonomous Flight |
| 4 | Gupta, Harsh | Wenzhen Yuan | Learning from Human Demonstrations |
| 5 | Zhu, Xingyu | Wenzhen Yuan | Touch-Guided Tangential Force Sensing for Pressure-Aware Bandaging Planning |
| 6 | Aggrwal, Aarushi | Nikita Borisov | Parallel Tree-Based GCD |
| 7 | Mattoo, Vaibhav | Nikita Borisov | Security of TEEs in Tor (Bento Architecture) |
| 8 | Zhang, Hanwen | Yih-Chun Hu | Data Leakage in Cellular IoT |
| 9 | Li, Ryan | Naresh Shanbhag | Research on Errors in AIMC |
| 10 | Kong, Yihan | Naresh Shanbhag | TBD |
| 11 | Qian, Yuan | George Gross | Barriers to Viable Hydrogen Deployment |
Day 6 – Wednesday, May 6: Signal Processing, Biomedical & Imaging
| # | Student | Advisor | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shah, Kush Rakesh | Thomas Moon | Speech Enhancement with Extended Kalman Filtering |
| 2 | Zhao, Yifan | Thomas Moon | Radar Chirp Bandwidth Expansion via Multi-Chirp Stitching |
| 3 | Garrison, Grant | Andrew Singer | Active Noise Cancellation with Selective Music Removal |
| 4 | Sacdalan, Derick Jr | Michael L. Oelze | Advanced Beamforming for Ultrasound Imaging |
| 5 | Tan, Xiner | Zhi-Pei Liang | EEG Markers for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation |
| 6 | Sullivan, Ryan Michael | Hyungsoo Choi | Gelatin-Coated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for MRI Hyperthermia |
| 7 | Meier, Joshua | Viktor Gruev | Custom PCB for Polarization Imaging System |
| 8 | Ren, Ivan | Viktor Gruev | Coral Health Prediction via Hyper-spectral Imaging |
| 9 | Persico, Enrico Francesco | Minh Do | Automatic Blood Pressure Monitor |
| 10 | Alnemer, Mohammed Taher | Ilan Shomorony | Haplotype Phasing on Antibiotic Resistance Genes |
| 11 | Loessy, Alec | Andrew Stillwell | Switched Capacitor Converter for Point of Load |
| 12 | Jayaraman, Vidhata Arjun | Lav Varshney | Information-Theoretic Limits to Knowledge Distillation |